The Hyland family — Jake, Uriel and Jamie — were on a camping trip when the fire hitA one-year-old boy found dead with his badly burnt parents on a river bank in Washington state is thought to be the youngest victim of the giant wildfires raging in the western United States. Uriel Hyland was on a camping trip with his father Jake, 31, and pregnant mother Jamie, 26, at a remote property in Okanogan county, east of Seattle, when the Cold Springs fire hit on Monday. The family tried to escape by road but were forced to abandon their truck, which was later found burnt, and flee on foot towards the Columbia river. They were spotted on the river bank from a Native American tribal boat early on Wednesday morning, the Okanogan county sheriff’s office said. A hillside is lit up near a bridge in Oroville, California NOAH BERGER/APWhen rescuers reached them Uriel was

Source: The Times September 10, 2020 16:07 UTC